Railway-tie.



L. L. VAN HORN.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.15

Patented Dec. 13, 1910.

2 EEETS-BHEET 1.

L. L. VAN HORN.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 15, 1910.

Patened Das. l3, 1910.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

LELAND L. VAN HORN, F POSTVILLE, IOWA.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Patented Dee. 13, 1910.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application leii August 15, 1910.Serial No. 577,147.

. frame in any sui-table and preferred manner.

lo all 'whom it may concern. i

Be it known that LELAND L. VAN Hoang `a citizen of the United States,residing atsame is provided on its upper face with Postvjlle, in thecounty of Allamakee, State spaced rail receiving grooves 17 and '18 inof Iowa; haveinvented certain new andusewhich are disposed the rails 19and 20 re- 4ful Im rovements in Railway-Ties; and I spcctively. Aplurality of sockets 21 are clear, and exact description of theinvention,

. cured to Vthe 'do here y declare the following to be a full, formed inthe cement lilling 12 by embedding metallic casings therein. Thesesocksuch as will enable others skilled in the art ets 21 are located onopposite sides of the ends of the frame 10 and itsV portion disposed inparallel v'spaced relation to said frame. Conned 4the frame 10 and abovethe bar 11 thereto, a liller of cement within said frame intermediateSaid filler being tapered from the lower edge of the frame to the baseofthe filler.'

Inltestimony whereof, I aflix my signawhicheare ta ture, iny presence oftwo witnesses. A.

ered downwardly substane .tall from the ower ed e of the frame 10 z tfte base of t-he llingg `as at 13. rThis 4 LELAND :HORN' lling 12` isreinforced by metallic rods l5 Vitnesses: 1.

i l nd 16 passing therethrough'and secured at P. J. BENCHER,

leach end respectively. to the ends of the A. W LANG.

In setting the cement filling 12 the- V10 `to which it appertains tomake and use the rail receiving grooves 17 and 1S respectively same. Al`and are disposed in opposing pairs. Each rIhis invention relates torailway ties. of these sockets 21 is formed with a down-.

The objectv of the invention resides in the wardly convex shoulder 22and disposed in construction of a comparatively simple and each socketis a bolt 23 havinfr a curved inexpensive device of this vcharacterwhich lower end 24 en aging the shoulder 22 and i at tha same time willbe exceedingly strong conformin totie shape thereof. The upi and durablein use. per end og the bolt 23 projects beyond the A furtherobject ofthe invention resides upper face of the tie and is threaded as .in theproduction of a railway tie provided at 25.

2 9 with means for firmly securing the rails in Mounted upon the upperend of each bolt lace and which toa measurable extent will is a lockingplate 26 and a shield plate 2 7 lie relieved offthe vibration to whichthe the former of which is adapted to engage rails are in practicesubjected. f the base of an adjacent 'rail and the latter to With theabove and other objects in :view close the open end of the socket 21. Anut the invention consists in the details pff con- 28 traveling on thethreaded end of the bolt rstruction and in the' arrangement an .com- 23serves to bind the locking plate 26 upon .bination of arts as will behereinafter more the rail base and the shield plate 27 upon the fulldescried and particularly pointed out upper face of the tie across the'open end of int e appended cla1m.` i the socket, the latter thusireventing the 3N In describing the inventionin detail refvsocket frombecomin fille with foreign erence will be had to 'the accompanyingmatter and enabling t ie bolt 23 to be withdrawings wherein likecharacters of refer-` drawn from the socket at all times with encedenote corresponding parts in .the sevcomparative ease. 1

eral views, and in which, From the forevoin itwill be apparent 35 Figure1, is aiplan view of a railway tie that thereis producer? a simpleinexpensive constructed in accordance with the inver. tie which inpractice will be strong and dution; Fig. 2, a sect-ion on the line 2*2of F ig. rable and which is providedwith simple and Q1; Fig.1i 3,;a planview of the tie, with the elicient means for attaching the rails and f.lf'ailfiidarail securing devices removed; Fi tieto'gether. 4o 4, an endview of thetie as illustrated 1n 'hat is claimed is:

' Figs. 1 and 2; and,F ig.' 5, fa section-on the A railway tiecomprising a rectangular 'line 5 *5 of Fig.3. metal frame, a bar havingits terminals con* Referring to the drawings, the tie is nectedrespectively to the ends of said frame shown as comprising a metallicrectangular and "its intermediate -portion disposed beframe 10. A bar'11 has its terminals seneath the frame in parallel spaced relation andabove the bar, the longitudinal edges of

